· Private foundation
The Mike Leprino Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDRENS DIABETES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| OPERA COLORADO | $6,000 |
| PEPPER SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +54% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DADENVER ART MUSEUM6× · 2017–2022 · $485k · revenue +7%
- DDDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE2× · 2017–2018 · $36k · revenue +254%
- EMEisenhower Medical Center2× · 2017–2018 · $27k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- TSTHE STEABOAT INSTITUTE OF INSPIRING AMERICANS TO GREATNESSone grant, 2018 · $100k
- SHSACRED HEART SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $25k
- CACOLORADO ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +54%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
To bring conventions and leisure visitors to denver for the economic benefit of the city, the community, and our partners.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To assure that dermatologists have access to the highest quality education, research and innovations in the field, and that patients and the public have access to the highest quality medical and surgical dermatologic care and to…
To represent the interests of dermatologists and their patients. to influence and be a credible resource for public and private entities related to all policies and regulations that have the potential to affect the delivery of dermatologic…
The denver metro chamber of commerce is the architect of tomorrow, igniting change and driving progress to build dynamic economies and communities. we champion innovation, forge powerful partnerships, and relentlessly advocate for our…
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds OPERA COLORADO ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LION GLOBAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER CITY LAX ↗
- Who funds Animal Samaritans ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Mike Leprino Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mike Leprino Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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